HOW ARE WE COPING WITH THE MIGRATION CRISIS?

KCSS Researcher Donika Emini participated in a roundtable discussion on "Migration and Refugee crisis in the Western Balkans: How are we coping with the migration crisis?". This roundtable was organized by the ZIP Institute, Skopje and funded by the International Visegrad Fund and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea.

The project is at its final stage and the final conference is supposed to bring together the complete pool of experts and participating NGOs representatives from Macedonia and Kosovo, along with a large set of stakeholders that are directly involved in the topics that we have been addressing the past 12 months.

The purpose of this workshop was to present the results of this project to the public focusing on migration and refugee crisis in the Western Balkans. In addition, given the issue of migration which have regularly addressed in the framework of this project, special focus will be placed precisely on the activities undertaken by UNHCR and local NGOs in Kosovo and Macedonia to cope with the current migrant and refugee crisis

KCSS researcher Donika Emini focused her speech on the presentation of the two KCSS research documents on migration, causes and the impact in the EU integration processes for Kosovo. Moreover, her presentation was focused on the causes of the recent wave of mass-migration towards the EU countries, and the perceptions of the citizens towards unemployment and isolation in Kosovo. As the Kosovo Security Barometer results show Kosovo citizens perceive the unemployment as the one of the biggest security threats. Special focus was given also the readmission process, and programs of the Government of Kosovo's reintegration and assistance to families who were deported from the EU countries.